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Citizen Media Law Project: A new bill to aid protection for bloggers

Judith Townend — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:15:03 +0000

The Citizen Media Law Project takes a good look at a new bill to extend protections of New York’s ‘robust media shield law’ to bloggers.

“As anyone who’s been faithfully reading the CMLP blog knows, the law hasn’t been particularly good at dealing with the intersection of media shield laws and bloggers,” Arthur Bright comments.

“That makes the efforts of a couple New York legislators to proactively address the problem a most welcome change,” he says.

Full post at this link…

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NBC and Outside.in match EveryBlock and NYTimes partnership

Laura Oliver — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:23:16 +0000

It’s all about microlocal/ultralocal/hyperlocal news – or whatever you want to call it – this week with a political news partnership for the New York Times and street-by-street news service EveryBlock.

The two sites have formed a data partnership, with info from the Times’ Represent catalogue of local elected representatives feed into EB’s mapped, postcode-searchable New York site.

Local news aggregation service outside.in has signed a similar deal with NBC ’s local media network and built 650 ‘neighbourhood news pages’ as part of NBC’s ‘Local Only’ sites.

The pages, which cover nine cities, will feature news and ‘conversation’ (for this read blogs, Twitter and other social media buzz around a topic) aggregated by neighbourhood, a press release said.

A blog post on outside.in explains the benefits of the deal:

The beauty of these Neighborhood News Pages is that they really serve all of the key audiences:

Consumers get more personalized and targeted news. What’s happening down the street from them.

Advertisers can target their buys to a more specific audience that’s not just IP targeted, but actually engaged in content withing specific geographic boundaries; and

NBC gets high quality hyperlocal editorial pages that cost a fraction of what it costs to build a ‘traditional’ editorial page and they actually are a great fit for Consumers and Advertisers

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New York magazine: The multimedia ‘renegades’ at the New York Times

Judith Townend — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:16:59 +0000

Photoshoot and interviews with ‘the Renegades’ at the New York Times in New York magazine. Emily Nussbaum takes a look at the ‘cybergeeks’ at NYTimes.com. Are they saving the Gray Lady? Full story…

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MediaBistro: Worldwide editions of Time magazine will come together

Judith Townend — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:45:51 +0000

Staff cuts at Time Europe are part of a bigger plan 'to consolidate the international editions of Time so that they will be primarily edited out of New York,' MediaBistro reports. "When it's over, the various overseas editions of Time will be edited largely out of New York, and to a lesser extent, out of Hong Kong, insiders said."

Jarvis reflects on name-calling in the blogground

Judith Townend — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:36:36 +0000

Over at Buzz Machine today Jeff Jarvis reflects on a blog attack that left him feeling a bit wounded – it even caused his parents to ask why someone was having a go at him.

It’s the ‘perils of publicness’ he writes. The original piece by Ron Rosenbaum at Slate.com criticised Jarvis, among other things, for his high profile conference circuit and questioned his reporting credentials.

Jarvis first responded here, with a blog post entitled ‘There, there Ron.’ Rosenbaum then left a comment calling him a … ‘meta-bloviator’. Plenty of comments to get through on that one.

And with the latest post, on it goes…

Calling himself an ‘obnoxious optimist’ Jarvis writes:

“Maybe that’s what happens: We all get attacked once and become wiser for it. Or we all get attacked and become nastier for it; that’s the fear. There were always be trolls, fools, idiots, and assholes; there are in life and so they will be here on the internet. That doesn’t ruin the internet any more than it ruins New York. The question is whether and how we can see and protect the value of the internet. Optimist that I am, I believe we will.”

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MediaBistro: An interview with Newser.com’s Caroline Miller

Judith Townend — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:45:30 +0000

A year ago, the news aggregation website Newser.com launched. Former editor-in-chief of New York, Caroline Miller, talks to Media Bistro's Fish Bowl NY about the site.

Bloomberg runs false obituary for Apple’s Steve Jobs

Judith Townend — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:51:38 +0000

The death of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs was prematurely announced yesterday afternoon by Bloomberg.

A pre-prepared stock obituary was accidentally posted to Bloomberg’s corporate client wire service, even through the story was marked ‘Hold for release – Do not use’.

It was quickly spotted by a user, and sent to Gawker.com, where the obituary can still be read in full.

Bloomberg was quick to retract the story, and yesterday published a message on its wire saying: “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m.New York time today.”

At Telegraph.co.uk Matthew Moore reports: “The stock obituary was published ‘momentarily’ after a routine update by a reporter, and was ‘immediately deleted’, Bloomberg said.”

According to Moore, ‘Jobs has been reluctant to publicly discuss his health, but recently denied claims that his cancer [from which he has previously suffered] had returned’.

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Associated Press launches celebrity news service

Laura Oliver — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:16:31 +0000

The Associated Press (AP) has launched a celebrity news service to expand its coverage of entertainment news.

Celebrity Extra, which includes video footage, is the result of a multi-million dollar investment by the agency, a press release from AP said.

New staff have been hired to work on the service and new video production technology has been bought for its Los Angeles, New York and London bureaux.

A photo version of the service will launch in September.

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YouTube vid catches police clash with cyclist

Laura Oliver — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:35:31 +0000

A video uploaded by a New York tourist to YouTube has captured a seemingly unprovoked attack on a cyclist by a police officer.

According to CNET, the video is at odds with the officer’s own report of the incident.

The video-sharing site has plans to harness the power of ‘citizen journalism’ with the launch of its Citizen News channel. Was this video submitted to any news organisations before or at the same time as YouTube?

Whether it was or not this video shows YouTube’s potential for newsgatherers and illustrates the changing relationship between the public and the media – some citizens would rather broadcast the news themselves.

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Reuters blogs: WSJ axes 50 jobs, creates new posts at New York ‘hub’

Laura Oliver — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:06:00 +0000

A reorganisation of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial and production operations will lead to around 50 jobs being lost, editor Robert Thomson has said in a memo.

The paper’s editing and production for print, online and mobile will be centralised around its New York ‘hub’, with editorial operations at its South Brunswick offices to cease.

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